Blass Hollingsworth

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

If you’re a Democrat running for president in 2028, your platform must include putting these people in prison. No ‘moving on’ or ‘turning over a new leaf’ nonsense.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 A missile struck Tel Aviv during a live NBC broadcast.

They could not cut away in time.

The world just watched it happen in real time.
Trump said this morning Iran’s missiles are gone. Their launchers are gone. Their capability is being destroyed every hour.

Iran just hit Tel Aviv on live American television.
Thirty years of Netanyahu saying Iran was weeks from a bomb. Six Americans dead. Scores of children killed in elementary schools. Tehran’s oil depots burning. Beirut bombed. The Strait closed.

And Iran just interrupted NBC’s broadcast.

The victory lap was a lie.

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. 92% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas. Close the Strait of Hormuz and you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day. You lose the feedstock for sulfuric acid, the single most produced chemical on Earth. Sulfuric acid is how we extract copper. It's how we extract cobalt. Without it, you can't make transformers, EV batteries, or the substrates inside every data center on the planet. One chemical, made from one feedstock, shipped through one chokepoint. The cascade goes further: Qatar ships 30% of Taiwan's liquefied natural gas through Hormuz. Taiwan has 11 days of reserves left. TSMC, the company that makes 90% of the world's advanced chips, draws 8.9% of Taiwan's total electricity. No gas, no power, no chips. Then food. 33% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer feedstock moves through the Strait. Half of all humans alive today exist because of synthetic nitrogen. Sulfur, semiconductors, food. That makes three supply chains, one 21-nautical-mile chokepoint, and zero domestic alternatives at scale.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Kuwait looks set to leave the US fold. The Saudis have pulled back their support. The UAE establishment is publicly asking questions of the United States. In less than a week, Iran has already created cracks in the US hold over the Middle East that has persisted for decades.

[Blass Hollingsworth @darinblass]

@shadihamid This hits. My parents met when they were in the same singles group at a church in Texas. Now for myself, I can't imagine going to a church and finding a partner.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Our mainstream media is broken.
https://t.co/SyJd2TiF6V

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[THE ISLANDER @IslanderWORLD]

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically.

Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture.
Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously.

This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page.

Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is not going according to plan.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

So...

1. Trump said "worst case scenario" is someone as bad as Khamenei coming to power, and now his eldest son Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has been chosen as his successor.

2. We are trying to evacuate Americans from the Middle East but struggling because the State Dept has been gutted.

3. FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran days before the strikes.

4. CIA is now arming Kurdish forces and sending them into Iran.

5. Pentagon is preparing to ask Congress for MORE money to help fund the war. After trillion dollar budget.

This is turning into a very bad situation very quickly.

[Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13]

Talarico supporters: be polite and respectful to Crockett supporters. She has deep ties to many communities and deep support across Texas and Democrats need to be united moving forward to November to have any chance. Be gracious in victory and defeat. You catch more with honey

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

So Trump just launched a military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has been indicted on drug trafficking charges … five weeks after he pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been convicted of drug trafficking charges

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

When he gave himself a ‘War Department,’ it was never going to be that long until he found himself a war.

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress. Trump rejected our Constitutionally required approval process for armed conflict because the Administration knows the American people overwhelmingly reject risks pulling our nation into another war.

This strike doesn't represent strength. It's not sound foreign policy. It puts Americans at risk in Venezuela and the region, and it sends a horrible and disturbing signal to other powerful leaders across the globe that targeting a head of state is an acceptable policy for the U.S. government. This will further damage our reputation – already hurt by Trump’s policies around the world – and only isolate us in a time when we need our friends and allies more than ever.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

A regime change war in Latin America based on absurd rationales about drug trafficking, no explanation of goals, and counter to everything Trump promised campaigning. And we’re not even a full year into Trump’s term.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Several contradictory things are simultaneously true:
1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region.
2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate.
3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled).
4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them.
5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Audra McDonald makes Tony Awards history as the singular most nominated performer with 11 nominations.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

I've started to realize that Anne Frank and her family wouldn't have been safe around a lot of people I know and loved and once respected.

That's not something you get over.

[carl’s a mess. @lawren_notloren]

if dorit can call sutton an alcoholic then sutton can call dorit broke #RHOBH

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

Colombia will impose reciprocal 50% tariffs on US goods, Colombia's President wrote on X, adding that Trump can try to carry out an economic coup, but Petro will “die” in his law. “I resisted torture, and I resist you"